Building my own network controlled LED dimmer

[Quindor]

Very cool! I also ordered an ESP8266 last week, to see if i can use it for some nice project.

How much GPIO pins does it have? I only have RGB strips in my house.

Thnx! It depends on which version you bought, if you bought the ESP-01 version it will only have 2 GPIO pins thus only being able to drive 2 channels of a 3 channel RGB strip.

Wow, nice and nice price. Our would be nice if you can produce a couple extra of the final version.....

I'm not really planning on selling these, but who knows! All plans will be made available when I finalize them. Currently still working on the prototype and the first board design has been sent to http://dirtypcbs.com to see if I can make it very simple to make them yourself!

I would like to move discussions and questions about the new v2 version to my new topic: Cheap WiFi LED dimmer (~10$) as to confuse anything with the v1 module (which still works fine).

[DaaNMaGeDDoN]

Nice stuff! In my case it wasn't necessary to have wireless, so i sticked with the ethershield.
All works great now, with a couple IRL2203N's (~1,2EUR a piece) and for future plans i do need wireless, so i ordered a couple of those ESP8266's, about 3,85EUR a piece.
Some time ago, before it got mentioned here i came upon some very interesting youtube channel where an electronics and arduino enthousiast plays with nRF24L01+'s and these ESP8266's which seem very similar (what do you guys think??):
http://youtu.be/wlhuO82IZjQ
http://youtu.be/GTW4YBOZO8c?t=3m10s
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=290043.0
By the way i have succesfully integrated an Opentherm gateway in my network over wireless using a hlk-rm04. It's probably the easiest wifi-to-uart solution, very stable in my experience but also a little more expensive. I had the luck i ordered 2 of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/Embedded-WIFI-t ... TQ:US:1123 when the ad said explicitly they would come with an antenna. I thought there had to be something wrong because of the price. Of course they didnt arrive with an antenna but the seller sent me 2 antennas afterwards no additional cost
http://rayshobby.net/?p=9592

[ThinkPad]

Any chance there will be coming an RGB version soon?

[Quindor]

Any chance there will be coming an RGB version soon?

Probably not anytime soon sadly enough.

Also, at least in combination with Domoticz, the control protocol code would have to be re-written completely first, etc. Also, I'm often not even using 2 Mosfets, just one, so adding a third does not make sense in my use case.

I will be using RGB LED strips in the future, but I will be doing so using Pixel Addresable strips. With those, you don't need a mosfet or anything like that but can just control it using one GPIO pin. The firmware I use (NodeMCU) has recently added native support for it! So I will be prototyping that in the future.

If you want to build an RGB version yourself, that would only require a small addition to the code. How you would configure it in Domoticz would be a bit harder though. Probably fetch the output of a built-in RGB dimmer and then translate it to my protocol.

I have made some protocol changes lately which make it possible to specify the dimming time with each command you send to the unit. I'll upload that soon.

[Quindor]

I'm reviving this topic because I'm creating a new series of video's about QuinLED, my ESP8266 PWM WiFi LED dimmer which I use in combination with Domoticz to control my LED lighting.

The revive or revisit of the series will be done in several new blog posts with youtube videos detailing exactly, what it is, why I built it and the history of the PCB versions. In future videos I'll go through exactly what hardware you need, components to get, how to solder it and in more videos, how to program it and connect it to Domoticz to have a true lighting solution!

You can find the new post and video here: http://blog.quindorian.org/2016/07/esp8 ... nled.html/

If anyone has any questions or comments, you can leave them here or on my blog/youtube video!

[Quindor]

I have made 2 new posts in this series, so I'm making a new post about it.

The first about which components you need, the board, files, etc..

And the second about the tools you need to solder it together and a 30 minuten soldering tutorial video trying to show that it's actually quite easy to make the boards yourself!

If you have any questions or comments, let me know! Either here, on my blog or below the YouTube videos.

[necrofrost]

I just ordered all the parts, since my TL-lighting in my kitchen died.... Already have some experience with arduinos and domoticz.... Really looking forward into building this.... Will keep you guys updated